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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World by Simon Garfield (Paperback, 2001)

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Mauve is the beguiling story of a man who invented a colour, and in the process transformed the world around him. Before 1856, artificial colour was derived with difficulty and at ermous expense from animals, minerals or plants. But in 1856 a chemist called William Perkin found a way of making colour from coal. Perkin found mauve by chance, at the age of 18, working on a treatment for malaria. Instead of artificial quinine he produced a dark oily sludge that, much to his surprise, turned silk a beautiful light purple. The colour was unique. It t only stormed the fashion houses of Paris and London, it earned Perkin a fortune and generated huge industries in the new science of applied chemistry. Perkin's astonishing discovery, engagingly told in Mauve, had fundamental effects on the development of explosives, perfume, photography and modern medicine - effects that colour everything we see today.
Author Biography
Simon Garfield was born in 1960. He is the author of Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry, The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, The Wrestling, The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1, Mauve, The Last Journey of William Huskisson, The Error World and the Mass Observation trilogy Our Hidden Lives, Private Battles and We Are At War. Mini: the True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car was published in 2009.

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Author(s)
Simon Garfield
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Date of Publication
03/09/2001
Language
English
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
0571209173
ISBN-13
9780571209170
Subject
Popular Science
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95929230

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Place of Publication
London
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Faber & Faber
Content Note
8pp colour illustrations

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Weight
190 g
Width
125 mm
Height
197 mm
Spine
16 mm

Editorial Details

Format Details
B-format paperback
Edition Statement
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